Briefly describe the musical activities that accompanied the Moroccan Zaffah wedding procession described in Worlds of Music.
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• The blaring of trumpets (nafir) and beating of frame drums (bendirs) as the couple is escorted into the reception hall ,and when everyone periodically walks around the hall.
• A band sitting on a stage playing Egyptian and North American urban pop.
• Four Berber women singing and dancing in a style unique to the Atlas Mountains to the accompaniment of bendir and fiddle (rabab).
• A third musical configuration of men playing bendir and rabab, huge tambourines (mazhar), and long, straight, valveless trumpets (nafir).
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